Hi Kevin, I have a few questions regarding the GSoC project. They goes as follows:- 1) How am I supposed to share my first draft with the community. Should I post the link in the mail or submit it on Apache website? 2) Can I take some ideas from this https://bz.apache.org/ SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7287 3) I have a very busy schedule at my college right now. Will it be okay if I start my contribution with an easy to fix bug after the proposal submission(around the end of April). I will mention this in the proposal. 4) Is there any way which can help me to understand the role of different files and folders in SpamAssassin source code.
Progress Status: I have started drafting the proposal. With Regards Saahil Sirowa Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:25 AM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> wrote: > HI Saahil, nice to meet you. > > Working on the Apache SpamAssassin project especially on a statistical > classifier is an excellent choice for a student GSOC student. > > For this and the ticket 267 that you also expressed interest in, you've > taken the correct step to engage the developer community for the project. > > Your first step is to go to https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html and > make sure you read the "Students Read this Section" > > The second step is discussion and to start drafting your proposal. I'm a > fan of using Google Docs and spreadsheets because it allows for easy > sharing and collaborative work on documents. I'd likely recommend > > For the bugs, the auto-linking is adding the comma so use > https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7287 > > We'll want you to discuss progress (designs, code, etc.) early on with the > rest of the community here on this list so you don't run into major > problems later on. And this will be where you post questions and I'll be > here to make sure people are nice, don't flame you and your questions make > sense. > > For others reading this, we could use more mentors for the program to > help! Anyone willing to be a backup mentor? > > Regards, > KAM > > -- > Kevin A. McGrail > Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation > Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project > https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Saahil Sirowa <cs16btech11...@iith.ac.in > > wrote: > >> Hello, I m Computer Science and Engineering student at IITH. I would like >> to work on the above mentioned project during GSoC 2018. I have started >> getting myself familiar with the codebase. Can you give me some pointers >> about how to proceed after that. What is the best medium to discuss my >> proposal ideas. >> >> >> link: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-268?page=com.at >> lassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel >> &focusedCommentId=16395113#comment-16395113 >> > >
